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April 2010

Keep your eye on LivingSocial, folks; it's hoarding cash for something mighty big. In January, the company raised $5 million as an initial Series B round from Grotech Ventures and AOL Founder Steve Case. Two months later, on March 11, LivingSocial an...

LinkedIn has made it easier for users to connect with their favorites companies with the launch of "Follow Company," a new feature that allows users to get notifications about activity happening from the companies they follow. The new feature, which ...

Steve Jobs has just posted a long open letter on Flash, listing all the reasons why Apple has decided not to support it on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The letter is a clear, sober, in-depth view in all of Flash's defects from Apple's point of vi...

Bryan Zmijewski is the Chief Instigator at ZURB, an interaction design firm that has helped 100+ startups design better products & services. ZURB is the creator of Notable, the easiest way for teams to give website feedback. According to the recent N...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has made it clear that he thinks today’s mobile ads aren’t up to par. However, his company’s solution to it, iAds, will come with a hefty price tag -- up to $10 million for advertisers that want to be on board for the product’s l...

Bungie, the video game development studio responsible for the monstrously popular Halo franchise, has signed a deal with publisher Activision to distribute a new game or series of games on multiple platforms. The new game or series will not be direct...

If random chat site Omegle was too boring for you, Chatroulette was too risque or if you just foster the overwhelming urge to tell strangers about your problems (who doesn't?), you might want to check out BLAH Therapy. BLAH Therapy launched this week...

Regator, the spiffy blog, news and feed reader, is opening up the doors on its latest version to a select few early adopters -- including 200 Mashable readers. The latest iteration includes an amazing UI upgrade as well as some important social integ...

With an industrial-age-meets-space-age soundtrack and imagery that falls somewhere between robotics and The Matrix, the new commercial for the Droid Incredible leaves a lot to the imagination -- perhaps a little too much. Without showing the device i...

Dealing with negativity online can be tough, which was why we were all ears when Tim Ferriss, author of The Four Hour Work Week, took the stage at The Next Web '10 event in Amsterdam to discuss how to learn to love haters. While Mashable recently off...

Yuli Ziv is the founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of independent online publishers in the fashion and lifestyle vertical, based in NYC. She blogs on social media, entrepreneurship and tech at YuliZiv.com. Follow her on Twitter @yuliz. Over ...

A recent report on Twitter usage in the U.S. by Edison Research concludes that 87% of all Americans are now aware of Twitter -- up from 5% in 2008 -- but only 7% of the population actually use it. Edison's data was collected in February from 1,753 Am...

We've seen a number of creative uses for augmented reality recently, from Iron Man to virtual pets and even tattoos. An interactive billboard in the Netherlands brings a powerful new example to the category by putting passersby in the middle of a vir...

In recent weeks, the magnanimous Steve Jobs has come down from the mountaintop on numerous occasions to grace his disciples (and detractors) with wisdom in the form of nearly monosyllabic e-mails. Well, now you can score a Jobs epistle of your very o...

Google users who queried the search engine in non-English languages were previously challenged by keyboard limitations. To address the problem, the company has integrated virtual keyboards for Google search in 35 languages. Now searchers typing in Al...

YouTube began quietly rolling out a new version of its Flash video player yesterday. It adds a couple of options for advanced users, minimizes clutter and makes the user experience just a little bit easier for everyone. The changes all make for a cle...

Chuck Dietrich is the CEO of SlideRocket, provider of the leading online presentation platform. Every day, thousands of people are forced to sit through dull, flat PowerPoint presentations. Whether you’re presenting slides during a sales call, speaki...

We've been curious about the Google TV initiative since hearing about the search giant's foray into set-top box land, and although scant few details have emerged since then we can now look forward to a full reveal at next month's I/O Developer Confer...

Consumer electronics, a broad category that includes TVs, computers, audio devices, phones and other related devices, currently constitutes nearly 2% of the municipal solid waste stream and is steadily rising at a rate of 8% per year. According to th...

We knew that police had identified and questioned the person who found and sold the iPhone prototype, and now his identity has been publicly revealed. According to an investigation by Wired, the person who sold Gizmodo the iPhone prototype is 21-year...

Controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said during a visit to Bolivia that he would like to invite Bolivian President Evo Morales and Cuban political leader Fidel Castro to join him on Twitter, according to Reuters. Chavez joined Twitter on T...

Although 14% of the service's users are categorized as "perverts,", Chatroulette is turning out to be a font of creative inspiration. From Merton and Ben Folds to would-be Lady Gagas, Travelocity gnomes and medieval parodies, there's no shortage of u...

Facebook this week announced that 50,000+ sites have implemented its "social plugins" in the week since launch. With "like" buttons permeating the web, and Facebook's intent to connect everything online using this new form of "social link", should Go...

The battle over Flash and its role (or lack thereof) on the iPhone came to a head today when Apple CEO Steve Jobs published an open letter explaining why his company won't support Flash on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen s...

Around the world, venture capital investments are seeing a marked uptick -- a 13% increase in investments was made in Q1 2010 alone. In all markets except Europe, VC seems to be slowly crawling up from the all-time lows of the recession. Earlier this...

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

Apple has filed trademark motions for its official iPhone and iPad app icons with minutely detailed descriptions. Here's the description for the MobileMe iDisk, for instance: "The mark consists of a rectangle with rounded corners depicting a stylized...

Microsoft's Courier was supposed to be the tablet of the future, Microsoft's answer (and challenger) to Apple's iPad, with two screens, multi-touch support, camera and a bunch of other goodies. But now, close on the heels of a rumor that HP might be ...

Remember all of that beautiful Mars imagery that NASA's Mars rover, Spirit, sent back during its journey to the Red Planet? Now imagine seeing high-definition color 3D video from the surface of Mars. James Cameron, one of the biggest authorities on 3...

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